The Embeddedness of Urban Climate Politics in Multilevel Governance: A Case Study of South Africa’s Major Cities

Hickmann, Thomas; Stehle, Fee

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“…The government needs to take an active role in formulating and implementing climate change policies (Fröhlich & Knieling, 2013;Hurlbert & Gupta, 2016;Wulandari, 2021). Other researchers also recommend the need for collaborative multi-level governance efforts to deal with complex climate change issues, starting with international, national, and local organizations (Bauer & Steurer, 2014;Di Gregorio et al, 2019;Fuhr et al, 2018;Hickmann & Stehle, 2019). All entities at different levels collaborate to create adaptive climate change governance.…”

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Adaptive Climate Change Governance in Makassar, Indonesia

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Over the past few years, historical records show that floods and strong winds are climatic phenomena that always cause damage and loss to cities. To climate vulnerability and disasters, the geographical character of the city causes the types of vulnerability and the impact of disasters to vary widely. Due to the unpredictable nature of climate change, there is a need for intervention from government agencies through policies and governance to reduce risks from the impacts of climate change. Therefore, this study aims to analyze how the Makassar City Government carries out governance to adapt to climate change. The research method used is a qualitative method with data collection techniques through interviews and document review. This research shows that the Makassar government is to formulate seven strategies to reduce the impact of climate change, form a Climate Change Adaptation Working Group and make priority village programs. Priority village program policies will make it easier to map areas with high to low levels of exposure. So with this policy, Makassar will become a city that is more adaptive to climate change. We propose increasing adaptability and decreasing sensitivity to exposure so that Makassar residents will be more resilient in the face of future climate change. In addition, adaptation action does not only rely on the government. However, it involves the community and the private sector so that collective action is created in the context of adapting to climate change.

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“…The South African Constitution of 1996 gives cities authority in respect to climate governance, yet the ambiguous division of tasks between the governmental spheres creates challenges for urban climate governance (Republic of South Africa, 1996). In addition, the devolution of environmental functions to the local level has not been accompanied by substantial transfers of funds, turning the provision of environmental services into an unfunded mandate (Hickmann & Stehle, 2019). The energy sector, responsible for the gross share of urban GHG emissions, is particularly conflict-ridden.…”

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“…Multi-level climate governance entails a horizontal and a vertical dimension (Hickmann & Stehle, 2019). In the horizontal dimension, transnational city networks (TCNs) are important actors, supporting local governments in their efforts to address climate change.…”

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Urban Climate Politics in Emerging Economies: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective

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Several scholars have pointed to the increasing salience of cities in the global endeavour to reduce dangerous climate change to 1.5°C. However, we still lack systematic comparative analyses on how urban climate initiatives evolve in different political-administrative systems of countries in the Global South and what role transnational city networks play in that context. This question is specifically important with regard to the role of cities in contributing to reaching the targets of the Paris Agreement. Against this backdrop, this article explores the vertical and horizontal integration of cities’ climate actions in the multi-level climate governance landscapes in Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa. We contend that while transnational city networks provide significant support to cities in some cases, their tools and practices can only reach their full potential where they encounter committed local administrations and when they are not constrained by domestic political-administrative and economic factors.

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“…Second, despite observed achievements in responding to climate change at policy level, many cities show limited capability in internalizing and actually operationalizing climate policies into concrete pathways to decarbonization (van der Heijden, 2019). They rather prioritize other important or acute policy concerns (Bernstein & Hoffmann, 2018; Hickmann & Stehle, 2019; Lafferty & Hovden, 2003; Patterson, de Voogt, & Sapiains, 2019). Intrigued by these observations, we study how the city government integrates ambitious climate goals into own governance, strategies and instruments to promote coherent and coordinated climate action across departments, sectors and actors.…”

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Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo

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Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, respectively, this article adopts a polycentric approach to the analysis of Oslo's urban climate governance. It unpacks the relationships between urban leadership, climate goal‐setting and institutional design, and reveals how these variables condition the employment of a combination of integrative and interactive governing instruments that foster both self‐governance and co‐creation in climate responses. The article argues that broad and long‐term political support facilitates the adoption of ambitious climate goals, utilization of regulatory powers, and the design and operations of innovative hybrid mixes of integrative and interactive governing instruments. The hybrid combination of instruments is what provides the basis for synergistic, predictable and dynamic forms of self‐governance and co‐created linkages among public and private ‘units’ within the wider urban climate governance ecosystem. Trans‐local and transnational networks play an important role in building such capacities for urban climate governance. Local processes of co‐creation and networked experimentations are ‘scaling up’ to change policies at city, national and international levels. The empirical observations from Oslo have implication for theories of polycentric urban climate governance and for the promise and limitations of co‐creation in the climate arena. The analysis draws upon qualitative interviews with close to 50 public and private stakeholders and policy document studies.

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The Embeddedness of Urban Climate Politics in Multilevel Governance: A Case Study of South Africa’s Major Cities

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Adaptive Climate Change Governance in Makassar, Indonesia

Adaptive Climate Change Governance in Makassar, Indonesia

Urban Climate Politics in Emerging Economies: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective

Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo

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